NEW DELHI: The Modi government is "confident" it can cut emissions from India, the world's third-biggest carbon emitter, by at least 35 per cent by 2030, environment minister Prakash Javadekar said at a press briefing on Friday.

"It is a very ambitious target," he said, after India submitted a new plan for tackling climate change to the UN ahead of a major environment conference in Paris in November. "India is not part of the climate problem, it's a part of the solution," Javadekar said, adding that the government was formulating a 15-year climate action plan to tackle the issue.

In its pledge, known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs, India committed to cut its "carbon intensity" by up to 35 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030, the document published on a UN website on Friday said. Here are the 8 goals the Modi government has listed as its bit for the global climate action as INDCs:

1. To put forward and further propagate a healthy and sustainable way of living based on traditions and values of conservation and modernisation.

2. To adopt a climate-friendly and cleaner path than the one followed by others at corresponding levels of development.

3. To reduce the emissions intensity of its GDP by 33-35% by 2030 from the 2005 level

4. To achieve about 40% cumulative electric power installed capacity from non-fossil fuel-based energy resources by 2030 with the help of transfer of technology and low-cost international finance, including from Green Climate Fund.

5. To create an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of CO2, equivalent through additional forest and green cover by 2030.

6. To adapt to climate change by enhancing investments in development programmes in sectors vulnerable to climate change such as agriculture, water resources, Himalayan regions, coastal regions, health and disaster management.

7. To mobilise domestic and new additional funds from developed countries to implement adaptation actions and bridge the resource gap

8. To build capacities, create domestic framework and international architecture for quick diffusion of cutting-edge climate technology in India and for joint, collaborative R&D for such future technologies.